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Writer and Poet Eileen Myles to Speak at Memorial Library
Posted 10/30/2009
MADISON, Wis. – Writer and poet Eileen Myles will speak on Friday, November 13 at 5:00 p.m. in room 126 of the UW-Madison Memorial Library. Her talk is called “Vernacular Scholarship.” She will read from her new collection of essays on art, queerness, discomfort, and landscape, as 
well as some of her new poems.
Myles is the author of the recently published collection of essays and art criticisms, The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art. The book is her first collection of essays, for which she received the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writers’ grant. She is professor emeritus of writing and literature at the University of California-San Diego where she taught from 2002–07. In spring 2010 she will be the Hugo Writer at the University of Montana in Missoula. Myles has contributed work to a variety of publications including Parkett, The Believer, Vice, Cabinet, The Nation, Art Forum, TimeOut, Book Forum and Another Magazine.
The event is being co-sponsored by the UW Madison Libraries, the Contemporary Literature Colloquium and the Creative Writing Program of the English Department, with assistance from FELIX.
Eileen Myles will also do a talk and presentation at The Project Lodge the same evening at 9:00 p.m.. The gallery is located at 817 E. Johnson Street in Madison.
